Orange County Indexed
The Bowland surname
The Bowland name in Orange County Indexed: 14 historical records.
- In the records
- 1764 to 1880
most named in the 1760s
- Deeds 1764–1873
- Court minutes 1766
- Tax lists 1780
- Wills 1799–1837
- Marriages 1879–1880
- Places in its deeds and wills
- Durham (1), Raleigh Road (1)
- Married into
- Dodson 1, Walker 1 · the marriages
- Often named with
- Strayhorn 2
- Spellings to try
- Borland, Boland, Bouland
- Search beyond these records
- Bowland in Ancestry Library Edition (on the library’s public computers; add Orange County, North Carolina as a place)
- HeritageQuest, through NC LIVE (anywhere, with your OCPL library card; search Bowland there)
- Bowland in Orange County records on FamilySearch (free account)
Drawn from the records below. Families named together, or married to one another, are leads to follow, not proof of kinship. A similar spelling may be another family, and two people of the same name are not necessarily the same person.
In the historical records 14 records
2 deeds, 2 marriages, 5 court minutes, 2 tax list entries and 3 wills and papers, oldest first. Every record that names someone of this surname, as the record spells it; choose a collection to narrow the list. Bowland marriages in full · Search the name in every collection
1760s
- 1764DeedsMathew Couch to Archibald Bowland, August 1764
- 1766Court minutesArchibald Bowland replaced James Craig as road overseer.
1780s
1790s
- 1799WillsWill of James Nelson
1820s
- 1827WillsWill of Rachel (x) Strayhorn
1830s
- 1837WillsWill of Elizabeth (x) Strayhorn
1870s
1880s
- 1880MarriagesMarriage license: William Walker and Mary Bowland
Undated
- Court minutesThe court assigned workers Jno Hart Barby Sen, Jno Barby, Ezekail Hinchey and 2 others to Baxter Bowland’s road section between Patterson…
- Court minutesOn Wm Duffy’s motion, the court appointed a jury to lay out a road connecting Hillsborough and the University.
- Court minutesJoseph Moore was released from Alex’r Bowland’s road crew because he oversaw another road.
- Court minutesJurors found Edward Alsobrook owed Isaac Kirk the stated debt and costs.